September 2021

WEF Nexus in Africa Initiative

Website: Water/Energy/Food Nexus in Africa Objective: To develop a community of practice that fosters capacity building with local and global partners that address the intersection of the water, energy and…

Bridget Scanlon

Institution/Organization: University of Tennessee- Knoxville Email: bridget.scanlon@beg.utexas.edu Website:   https://www.beg.utexas.edu/people/bridget-scanlon Committee(s): Collaborator Dr. Bridget R. Scanlon is among the leading hydrogeologists and conducts research at the Bureau of Economic Geology at…

Jiří Klemeš

Institution/Organization: University of Tennessee- Knoxville Email Address: klemes@fme.vutbr.cz Website:   https://www.vut.cz/en/people/jiri-klemes-32078 Committee(s): Collaborator Head of a Centre of Excellence “Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory – SPIL”, NETME Centre, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,…

Esther Parish

Institution/Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab Email Address: parishes@ornl.gov Website:   https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/esther-s-parish Committee(s): Collaborator Geographer & Landscape Ecologist Dr. Esther S. Parish has been a researcher with ORNL’s Environmental Sciences Division since 2010 and…

Richard Hopper

Institution/Organization: Tufts University and Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. Email Address: richard.hooper@tufts.edu Website:  https://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/people/faculty/richard-hooper Committee(s): Collaborator Executive Director of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement…

Xuesong Zhang

Institution/Organization: University of Illinois Website:  http://www.fewstern.org/people/xuesong-zhang/ Committee(s): Collaborator Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) Dr. Zhang is a Principal Investigator for the NSF grant award: A Modeling Framework…

Laura Harrison

Institution/Organization: Climate Hazard Center, University of California – Santa Barbara Email Address: harrison@geog.ucsb.edu Website:  https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/people/laura-harrison Committee(s): Collaborator Specialist and Operations Analyst for the Climate Hazards Center Laura’s professional activities include monitoring…

Stephen Long

Institution/Organization: University of Illinois Email Address: slong@illinois.edu Website:  https://cropsciences.illinois.edu/people/profile/slong# Committee(s): Collaborator Director of RIPE – Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency for improved crop production, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Project; Center for…